Gas-stove attachment.



F. P. PEEBLES & H. H. K. JEFFERSON.

GAS STOVE ATTACHMENT. APPLICATION FlLED JAN.|9.1918.

Patented May 21, 1918.

FLORENCE P. PEEBLES AND HARRY H. K. JEFFERSON, 0F BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA.

GAS-STOVE ATTACHMENT.

Application filed January 19, 1918.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, FLORENCE P. PEE- BLES and HARRY H. K. JEFFERSON, citizens of the United States, residing at Birmingham, in the county of Jelferson and State of Alabama, have invented new and useful Improvements in Gas-Stove Attachments, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an attachment for gas stoves having among its objects to save gas, to regulate the heat and to protect the cooking utensils placed thereon.

A further object of the invention is to produce a simple and improved attachment of the character described which may also be successfully utilized as a toaster.

Further objects of the invention are to simplify and improve the construction and assemblage of the parts entering into the construction of the improved appliance or attachment with a view of making the improved device inexpensive as well as attractive in its appearance.

With these and other ends in view which will readily appear as the nature of the in vention is better understood, the same consists in the improved construction and novel arrangement and combination of parts which will be hereinafter fully described and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings has been illustrated a simple and preferred form of the invention, it being, however, understood that no limitation is necessarily made to the precise structural details therein exhibited, but that changes, alterations and modifications within the scope of the claims may be resorted to when desired.

In, the drawings Figure 1 is a side elevation of a device constructed in accordance with the invention.

Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view of the same.

Fig. 3 is a bottom plan view.

Fig. 1 is a perspective detail view of the tube from which the body portion is formed.

Corresponding parts in the several figures are denoted by like characters of reference.

The body of the improved device consists of a tube 15 of sheet metal the upper end of which is slit vertically as seen at 16 in Fig. 4 to produce a plurality of arms 17 which are bent so as to project radially with respect to the tube, said arms being inclined slightly in Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 21, 1918.

Serial No. 212,654.

an upward direction as clearly seen in Figs. 1 and 2.

18 is a circular plate of sheet metal the peripheral edge of which is bent upwardly to produce a flange 19, said plate being provided with numerous perforations 20. The plate 18 is dished in a downward direction, as clearly seen in Fig. 2. A second circular plate 21 having an upstanding flange 22 is fitted within the flange 19 of the plate 18, and the flange 19 is turned or beaded on the flange 22, thereby securely assembling the plates 18 and 21 together in such a manner as to produce a circumferential upstanding bead, an air space 23 intervening between the plates 18 and 21 due to the dished formation of the plate 18.

The top member of the device. comprising the assembled plates 18 and 21 is secured on the upwardly inclined arms 17 of the tube 15 by means of rivets 24, and it will be noticed that the arms 17 are inclined to such an extent that their inner ends, where they join the tube 15, will be materially spaced from the dished plate 18, as will be clearly seen by reference to Fig. 2. The tube 15 may be provided at its lower end with one or more notches 25 constituting air inlets.

The improved device may be made of different dimensions, adapting the same to be used in connection with the simmering burners or other burners of ordinary gas stoves of various makes. In use the device or tube 15 is placed over the burner, the latter entering within the tube and the top member composed of the plates 18 and 21 being supported a suitable distance above the burner. When the gas used from the burner is ignited the flame will be diffused by the arms 17 and the dished, perforated plate 18, and a cooking utensil which may be supported on the device will be protected against the direct impact of the flame. The heat will thus be conserved, gas saved. and the utensil protected against injury. In utilizing the device as a toaster, a slice of bread may be supported on the upstanding bead formed by the flange 19 which is headed upon the flange 22 and the bread, being thus supported above the top plate 21 will be in no danger of being scorched.

The improved device, as will be seen from the foregoing description, is simple in con struction and may be manufactured at a moderate expense. It is neat in appearance and in every respect useful for the purpose for which it is provided.

Having described the invention what we claim as new is:

1. In a device of the class described, a tubular member having upwardly inclined arms, .and a top member secured on said arms, said top member comprising a downwardly dished, perforated bottom plate and a top plate connected therewith, there being an air space intermediate the top and bottom plates.

2. In a device ofthe class described, a

tubular member having radially extending, u wa ly in ned rm nd' a op mem fi e-Pis Q s Pat nt m y. he b eiiwe f r flange of the second plate to produce a circumferential upstanding bead.

3. In a device of the class described, a top member comprising a downwardly dished, perforated plate having a circumferential upstanding flange, a second plate fitted within the flange of the first plate and also having an upstanding flange, the flange of the first plate beingturned upon the flange of the second plate to produce an upstanding bead, there being an air space intermediate "the first and secondplates, a tubular member having.radially extending, upwardly inl clined arms, and r vets whereby said arms.

are connected with the plates Lconstitutjing thetopmember said arms, being materially spaced beneaththe dished plate at the points where said arms join the tubular member.

In testimony whereof We, affix our signatures.

FL B NCE P. PEE LES.

H. IQJEFFERSON.

five cents eaeh,b y addressing the Commissioner of Batents- Washington, D. 0. 

